Invisible Road Series

Yuna (Lei) Zhang is a fourth-year student in the Material Art & Design program at OCADU in Canada. She decided to go back to University. Zhang believes that jewellery art is one of the essential elements of fashion. Therefore, Zhang focuses on both textiles and jewellery. Also, She likes to study interdisciplinary art. She is exploring integrating traditional culture into contemporary jewellery. Personal experiences play a significant role in the inspiration behind her pieces. Let people feel the backstory of the jewellery.

Her artworks showed at the 61st Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Canada's leading contemporary exhibition. She is the winner of Honourable Mention of the Fourth Annual Emerging Artist Design Competition by CGA.

In this series, there are various roads in a person's life; each one has its pathway and revolves around an individual's dreams, faith and aim in life. These roads are invisible ways, but they do exist. These are roads in life.

People often hope that they can have wings and fly quickly to the goal of their dreams. For example, spaceships fly to outer space in the sky, and taking a plane is the most convenient to travel. Without a professional flight route map, we can't see these aircraft's routes (roads). Therefore, those roads of flying roads are invisible.

The route (road) of flight is an invisible way, and the way of life is also an unknown, invisible road. Therefore, it is very proper to use wings as a metaphor for the invisible road in life. In addition, people have always yearned for wings. If the dream can have wings, it will quickly get closer to the goal. Therefore, wings represent a beautiful invisible road.

Yuna hopes her designed earrings can make people feel a glimmer.